The Christmas presents are all opened. The family has left. Maybe you got a new TV or at least an iTunes gift card. So, if you haven't had to head back to work yet and have found yourself with time on your hands, put on your Santa hat and get comfy with these recommendations:

Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta continues its "Season of Compassion" with the uplifting musical "The Gifts of the Magi" and storytelling event "A Christmas Memory," which explores the compassion needed and realized when people really love each other and can triumphantly navigate adversity.

More than 122 years ago, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was commissioned by the director of Russia's Imperial Theatre to compose the score for "The Nutcracker," using a libretto adapted from E. T. A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.